Tickets and Passes of London from the David Young Collection


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CLERKENWELL, Sadler’s Wells, Aquatic Theatre, Mr Morelli’s Night, Tuesday October 15th 1811, a card ticket for a Box for 4, no.360, signed with initials CJM, 92 x 73mm (Young, Theatres & Circus, p.90, this item). Very fine, rare


£100-£150 Provenance: Tim Millett FPL 2005 (83); bt April 2005.


Giovanni Morelli (fl. London 1787-1815), originally from Florence, was the well-known Sadler’s Wells prompter, a person of sufficient repute in the world of London theatre at the end of the 18th and beginning of the 19th centuries. Italian minstrels and gymnastic performers arriving in England sought his advice, both when he lived at 18 Oxendon street, off the Haymarket, and then moved with his family to Spa Gardens. A contemporary wrote of him in 1825 ‘[he] was an actor such as the Italian stage has seldom witnessed. He was, I used to think, in his prime, quite upon a par with [Tom] King [the comedian] of Drury Lane Theatre. Like him, he was distinguished for neat articulation, and an unremitting attention to the business of the whole stage’


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6.52g (W 120; Young, Theatres & Circus, p.53, this piece; D & W 14/169). Excavated, fine


Provenance: Bt S.H. Monks July 2001 COVENT GARDEN, Theatre Royal, New Theatre, uniface copper, COVENT GARDEN THEATRE TWO BOX in five lines, 27mm,


£40-£60


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circles, 35mm, 16.19g (W 122, this piece illustrated; Young, Theatres & Circus, p.50, this piece; D & W 12/124). Some spots of verdigris, otherwise good fine, very rare


£90-£120


Provenance: Bt S.H. Monks November 2000 COVENT GARDEN, Theatre Royal, New Theatre, 1796, copper, B[ox] P[rince’s] S[ide] above date, rev. concentric


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